ENGINEERING AND DIGITAL ARTS

Technology for a Brighter Future


Research in the School

The School is engaged in high-quality research with significant national and international impact while offering excellent opportunities for graduate studies. We have been consistently attracting substantial research funding from the UK Research Councils, European research programmes, industrial and commercial companies, government agencies and others and our spread of expertise allows us to respond rapidly to new developments.

We have a thriving student population studying for postgraduate degrees in a notably friendly and supportive learning environment within a successful research culture. The skills, abilities and enthusiasm of our students are vital elements in our research activities and we foster them as effectively as we can through the provision of excellent research training during their graduate studies.

Research Student

Research groups

Broadband and Wireless Communications

The group's activities cover system and component technologies from microwave to terahertz frequencies. These include photonics, antennas and wireless technologies for a broad range of communication systems. The group has extensive software research tools together with antenna anechoic chambers, network and spectrum analysers to millimetre wave frequencies and optical signal generation, processing and measurement facilities.

Research Themes

Digital Media

The digital media group has interests in many areas of interactive multimedia and digital film and animation.

There is particular strength in web design and development, including e-commerce, e-learning, e-health; and the group has substantial experience in interaction design (e.g. usability and accessibility), social computing (e.g. social networking, computer mediated communication), mobile technology (e.g. iPhone), virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) and video games. In the area of time-based media, the group has substantial interest in digital film capture and editing, and manipulation onto fully animated 3D modelling techniques as used in games and feature films.

Research Themes

Image and Information Engineering

The group has research interests in all aspects of image processing and image analysis, including high performance classifier design and image interpretation, image coding and video processing, colour and texture feature analysis, and intelligent processing structures, and has an international reputation for its work in a number of key application areas of interest which include handwriting analysis, medical image processing, document processing, and biometrics and security.

Research Themes

Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems

The Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems (ICES) research group comprises a mixture of well experienced and young and vibrant academics from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts and the School of Physical Sciences. The team works in three complementary research themes - Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems. The group has made considerable endeavours to solve challenging scientific and technological problems with a range of industrial organisations through applied research programmes funded through the UK Government and with many European countries through EU-funded research programmes. The group's expertise lies primarily in sensors, instrumentation, image processing, signal processing, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), neural networks, robust control and estimation, and embedded system design. Since 2001 the group has published more than 150 peer reviewed journal papers and over 360 refereed conference papers in addition to 26 patents. More than 30 PhD research students have graduated from the group since 2001.

Research Themes

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Last Updated: 19/09/2011